Have you been missing live music the last few months? Well, then you’re in luck! The Moab Backyard Theater in downtown Moab, was among the first live music venues to reopen in the entire USA, hosting a lineup of local acts Tuesday through Thursday.

Once a person develops symptoms of COVID-19, it has likely already been days since they started unknowingly spreading the virus. As such, local health officials want to expand testing locally for the coronavirus.

Arches and Canyonlands national parks will partially reopen to the public at the end of the month, according to a spokesperson for the parks, following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local public health authorities.

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The Utah Highway Patrol reported Saturday that three people died, and one person was critically injured, in a head-on collision on Highway 191 in San Juan County, roughly between Moab and Monticello. The accident occurred Saturday, Aug. 3.

The victims were 75-year-old Kenneth Harding from Goodman, Arizona; 73-year-old Frances Harding, also from Goodman; 68-year-old Patricia Storm, from Minot, North Dakota; and an unidentified passenger, who was flown to St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Junction in critical condition.

The collision occurred at mile marker 93, which is 23 miles north of Monticello. Highway Patrol troopers said that the Hardings were driving northbound in a Ford Expedition, towing an 18-foot boat, when the driver, Kenneth, veered into the northbound lane in which Storm was traveling.